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Professor Vijay Ganesh of Waterloo's ECE department recently won an IBM Faculty Award for the year 2015 for his work on string solvers and their applications to malware analysis and security. Professor Ganesh, his collaborators, and students also won 3 best paper awards in 2015. Their work on understanding why feature models are easy for SAT solvers landed them a best paper award at the SPLC 2015 conference held in Nashville, Tennessee.

Graduate nanofabrication research yields commercial opportunity

Characterizing nanostructures using atomic force microscopy (AFM) presented a commercial opportunity

for University of Waterloo graduate student Babak Shokouhi. He and his team developed a novel process

The Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering sadly reports that retired Professor Mohamed Kamel died December 4. "He will be sorely missed by his current and former students, colleagues at the University and from around the world and by the research community at large. The passing of Dr. Kamel is a major loss to all those who have known him and to the scientific community at large."

Professor William Wong highlighted in the Waterloo Region Record’s Technology Spotlight for his work in ‘heterogeneous integration’.

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St. Jacob’s based company Deep Realities featured in Waterloo Region Record’s Technology Spotlight with ECE’s Bernie Roehl as the 3-D software developer

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Waterloo engineer who founded web-based grocery delivery service is named one of America’s richest entrepreneurs under 40

Apoorva Mehta, an alumnus of the University of Waterloo’s electrical engineering program, has been named to the annual Forbes Top 40 Under 40 list. The list highlights America’s richest entrepreneurs under 40.

Challenging the status quo

Lan Wei - Assistant Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

Impact

ECE Professor Liang-Liang Xie has been named newly elevated IEEE Fellow for his contributions to fundamental limits of feedback control systems and wireless networks.

ECE professor Lin Tan, her PhD student Jinqiu Yang, and collaborators from IBM received the CAS Research Project of the Year Award in 2015. Their project is titled "Prioritizing and Visualizing Security Findings”.

Earlier this week, GM Canada announced $1 million in funding to support the Educating the Engineer of the Future campaign. This support will fund a Research Chair in advanced materials while also sponsoring Waterloo Engineering’s Capstone Design projects involving software development, which is key to GM Canada’s work on “the connected car.”